Most of us would be unemployed already if we had not invented hundreds
of millions of irrelevant jobs ... from tax accountants to marketing
strategists, from insurance brokers to all the jobs in companies doing
the same thing in different places because of asymmetries of knowledge,
because every company has to create its own X or Y in a competitive
environment. Technically speaking most people are unemployed by not
contributing anything meaningful to society ... of course we can come up
with more and more irrelevant jobs ...
"We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody
has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us
can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the
rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this
nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this
false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery
because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his
right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making
instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of
people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was
they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they
had to earn a living." -- Richard Buckminster Fuller
On 01/29/2013 09:13 AM, Matt Mahoney wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Piaget Modeler
<[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/big-data-and-cloud-computing-empower-smart-machines-to-do-human-work-take-human-jobs
The invention of the printing press put scribes out of work. The
invention of the chariot put porters out of work. It's a wonder we
aren't all unemployed by now.
--
-- Matt Mahoney, [email protected]
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